Terrance Broadway leads Louisiana-Lafayette to victory

Louisiana-Lafayette 43, East Carolina 34

NEW ORLEANS — Whether Terrance Broadway was throwing, running, or throwing on the run, he gave East Carolina fits and justified Louisiana-Lafayette coach Mark Hudspeth’s decision to let his sophomore quarterback finish the season as his starter.

Boise State place-kicker Michael Frisina is carried off the field after his 27-yard field goal with 1:16 left lifted the No. 20 Broncos to a 28-26 victory over Washington.

Broadway passed for 316 yards and ran for 108, helping Louisiana-Lafayette repeat as winners of the New Orleans Bowl with a 43-34 victory against East Carolina on Saturday.

The performance capped a 2012 campaign which opened with Broadway backing up senior Blaine Gautier, who broke a bone in his throwing hand in late September.

“Terrance comes in and just has a phenomenal season,” Hudspeth said, describing the difficult decision not to give Gautier, the New Orleans Bowl MVP a year ago, his job back when he was healthy again late in the season. “We really had hit our stride and the best thing about Blaine is he understood.”

Broadway had to sit out last season after transferring from Houston, and saw this year’s New Orleans Bowl as his first real chance to add some kind of championship to his name after coming up short in high school.

“My main goal was to get our team a big win in this bowl game and just to get that monkey off my back that I didn’t have a ring from high school and last year,” Broadway said. “I was very focused on that.”

Alonzo Harris rushed for 120 yards, including touchdowns of 6 and 68 yards for the Ragin’ Cajuns (9-4), who briefly squandered a three-touchdown lead before moving back in front for good on Broadway’s 14-yard scoring pass to Javone Lawson late in the third quarter.

“Nothing fazes our team,” said Broadway, who also ran for a 12-yard score. “Everybody on our team responds to adversity well. So when they came back on us and made a game out of it, our team is still upbeat and saying we’re going to win this game.”

LAS VEGAS BOWL

NO. 20 BOISE STATE 28, WASHINGTON 26

In Las Vegas, Little Michael Frisina came up big for Boise State, kicking a 27-yard field goal with 1:16 left to give the Broncos a victory over Washington.

Frisina, who stands 5-foot-5, made the winning kick after Washington had taken the lead for the first time on Travis Coons’ 38-yard field goal. Boise State (11-2) sealed the win when Jeremy Ioane intercepted Joe Southwick’s pass as the Huskies (7-6) neared midfield.

It was the third Las Vegas Bowl win in a row for the Broncos, who had to overcome a 205-yard rushing game by Bishop Sankey against a normally stingy Boise State defense.

Frisina was only 12 for 17 on field goals coming into the game, but kicked three of them.